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A young British woman given just a five per cent chance of survival after a horror skiing accident has bravely spoken about making a “miracle” recovery.
Olivia Corbiere, 23, suffered a brain bleed, lung damage, a broken pelvis and three fractured vertebrae when she fell 15ft (4.5m) down a ravine in Bansko, Bulgaria, in March.
Doctors who first tended to the stricken kitchen designer told her mum Linzi, 46, she had a limited chance of pulling through - and might never talk again if she did.
But remarkably, after Olivia was flown to Britain for treatment and spent a total of six weeks in hospital, she has been allowed to come home.
A young British woman given just a five per cent chance of survival after a horror skiing accident has bravely spoken about making a “miracle” recovery.
Olivia Corbiere, 23, suffered a brain bleed, lung damage, a broken pelvis and three fractured vertebrae when she fell 15ft (4.5m) down a ravine in Bansko, Bulgaria, in March.
Doctors who first tended to the stricken kitchen designer told her mum Linzi, 46, she had a limited chance of pulling through - and might never talk again if she did.
But remarkably, after Olivia was flown to Britain for treatment and spent a total of six weeks in hospital, she has been allowed to come home.
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00:00Hi, my name's Olivia. I'm 23 years old. At 17, I had a skiing accident in Bulgaria. I
00:12fractured my pelvis, part of my spine, and fractured my skull as well as my eye sockets.
00:22We'd finished skiing for the day, so it was just on the smaller part of the slopes called
00:26the ski road. Obviously, my friends have told me as I don't remember parts of my accident.
00:33The weather on this lower part wasn't as great, so the snow was a little bit choppy, and it
00:39caused one of my skis to overlap the other, and I wasn't able to straighten it up. I fell
00:46into a ravine. Three of my friends jumped into the ravine to lift me up as I was knocked
00:51unconscious. They climbed down the 20-foot drop. They flagged down emergency services.
00:58Luckily, there was a ski school passing, so the instructor was able to radio for help
01:03quicker than what it would have been if we had to ring the snowmobile team. Then I was
01:09directed onto a snowmobile, and then I was taken to the hospital from there. I was in
01:13hospital for roughly around about six and a half weeks. It was only the last two weeks
01:18that I remember from hospital, whereas the times before that, the two weeks in Bulgaria
01:22hospital, I don't remember any of that. It was just a lot of physio that I was doing,
01:28and then my friends and family coming to visit me. I did really want to go home to be with
01:32my family, my sister, my mum and dad, and my dogs. Once I had the sign-off to say that
01:39I was ready to come home, I was really grateful. Once I am fully recovered, at the moment I'm
01:45not at work. I had brain surgery, so I've got to wait until I'm signed off by the neuro
01:52team to make sure that my brain's working properly and stuff like that. Once all my
01:56physio's completed, I want to be back at my football training with my team. Just be back
02:02to normal life, even little bits where me and some of my friends used to go to a spin
02:07class together. Just be back to complete normality. Hopefully that won't be too long.
02:15For more information visit www.iclinic.co.uk